Is AI cheating ?

[HJ]

Originally posted by SurvivalistMerc:
It doesn't break seiges when it could easily deal with the force coming at it from either direction but not with the combined force.

That's not what I've seen. They try to break sieges all the time, and I usually have to completely cut off besieged province for them to stop. I've even seen vampire queen and two vampires alone trying to break siege against a huge army of mine when they were cut off completely.

Btw, I don't see how much the fort is damaged when I besiege it. Does the fort's defense rating reset itself if there is an attempt to break the siege, or does it continue to diminish as long as I'm able to damage the walls regardless of the relief attempts?

On the stealth topic: I haven't seen this particular behavior of intercepting your stealthy units. I've had my scouts and preachers in empty provinces for many turns. And also I've seen enemy assasins doing their job after crossing many many of my provinces on which I've spent a fortune for local defense and whacking my researchers in the capitol... Bottom line is, you don't know whether the AI would move its army in that province regardless of your assassin, i.e. maybe they were just going in that direction for some other reason. Only the devs would know an answer to that.

[ November 21, 2003, 20:39: Message edited by: HJ ]